Place

Patea is the third-largest town in South Taranaki, New Zealand. It is on the western bank of the Patea River, 61 kilometres north-west of Wanganui on State Highway 3. Hawera is 27 km to the north-west, and Waverley 17 km to the east. The Patea River flows through the town from the north-east and into the South Taranaki Bight. For the former electorate from 1893 to 1963 see Patea.

Printed dictionaries and other books with definitions for Patea

PATEA is the name of the southern port of Taranaki, and also of a river, which
rises in Mount Egmont, siows through the borough of Stratford, and after a
somewhat tortuous course, discharges into the South Taranaki Bight, a short
distance to ...

Patea. Crooked, disobliging. Patea thehga. A crooked stick. Patea kor. A
disobliging person. Patel To dam or obstruct and cause to go another way, as
water ; to block a way, to lever. DaKko patet' gidikada. They dammed the water
and caused ...

Ekaa Patea, the real or fictitious name of an astrologer, who flourished some
centuries ago/ but of whom nothing more than the name appears recorded. Butler
sarcastically gives Wm. Lilly, the astrologer, the name of Erra Pater. In
mathematies ...

Illustrative of the Works of Our Early Dramatic and Lyric Poets by William Toone

Eaua Patea, the real or fictitious name of an astrologer, who flourished some
centuries ago, but of whom nothing more than the name appears recorded. Butler
sarcastically gives Wm. Lilly, the astrologer, the name of Erra Pater. In
mathematies ...